Friday Fury: The hustle
You’re not special. Everyone needs to work to pay bills, I get it, but having to hustle every day won’t give you the experiences you need as a human.
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Summary
The internet drives me insane. Your life should come before work, not the other way around. I’m in the forest with my dog, still getting clients, so I don’t need to hustle, and you shouldn’t either. Stop posting your wins and numbers, customers don’t care, just go enjoy your life.
Raw
The internet is a wash of hustle culture. I’ve made a video in the past about hustle porn and it just drives me insane and it makes no sense. As you know, I always talk about your life should become before work.
Your work should be incidental to your life, not the other way around. So all these people, proponents of hustle culture, hustle, hustle, hustle, get the money, get the bag, get the bag. It just drives me insane because it’s like, go and enjoy your life.
I’m in the middle of the forest walking with my dog. I’m still getting clients. So I don’t need to hustle.
Now, bear in mind, I’m privileged in the sense that I’ve also worked goddamn fucking hard to get work to where I am, but I’m privileged in the fact that I don’t have to hustle. I don’t have to constantly post my wins on social media. I don’t have to post my financial records. Like, who’s fucking business is that? It’s my business.
I don’t give a shit about what other people make. It’s like, what can you actually do for me? I don’t care about your monthly recurring revenue. All these indie developers think they got a cussle and’s got to show their numbers so people will like them. No, the only people that like you are other indie hackers, other hustlers. Your customers don’t give a shit about it, it. They don’t care about the features. They want to know the benefits.
You always talk about the benefits over features, but no one seems to fucking do it. Marketers kind of know. They get the idea, but also they’re hustling, copywriters, um, designers, um, UX, UI, whatever kind of designer you are. There’s so many people on social media just fucking bullshitting nowadays and hustling.
And I think you should be living your life. You shouldn’t be hustling. If you’re hustling and you’re shouting from the rooftops, you’re not, you’re not, no one’s going to hire you. There might be a few. There might be some exceptions to the rule. But Jesus Christ, go and live your fucking life. Stop hustling all this time. Go and enjoy it.
I’m going to get off my knees. Jesus Christ, I’m getting old. And I’ll see you next time. Go and enjoy it. There’s only one planet, there’s only one of you, there’s only one world. I already said that. Thanks, Woof!. See you later.